Poetic Journey in Personal Discovery

Welcome to my first poetry duet! A fun, challenging and therapeutic process/ with the subject matter hitting home.

My collaborative poetic friend was a delight to work with. He has a kind and compassionate heart which I’ve come to know and care for. His blog expresses the darker “Poe” side of things with a creative and unique perspective. Check him out : http://jmc813.wordpress.com

Today is the day, I’m going to do it this time.
I’m finally finished, I can leave it behind.

Do you hear yourself? You’ve said it time and again.
It’s eleven in the morning, I’ll see you by ten.

It was a pleasure collaborating with you. You were so flexible and open- such great qualities in a cooperative effort. I’m proud of the piece as well. Our combined experience with the subject was such an important component. Thanks for the invite to participate!

Always. Hope we can do it again soon. You were a gem to work with and I feel you carried much of this piece on your shoulders. Truly Inspiring and powerful write we have here.
Love the collage you came up with as well.

Thanks! Trying to find the right demon addiction image was a “beast”! I think we carried equal weight. I am really happy about how it turned out too- powerful. It was an interesting process for me because it was so “piecemeal” – when I write a piece like that it drives me a little batty! Feel like it won’t be good if it doesn’t just spill out! More “Instant gratification” stuff I’m sure. But when I saw the whole, I was quite taken with it. Thanks again!

I am quite the opposite. I love it when my creativity spills forth, but find I am much more methodical than I would like at times. But I have an almost compulsion for the right words and flow. That is exactly why I enjoy Duets. I learn so much about how others draw their creativity, and try to learn from them. You were no exception. I learned from this write E. Thanks for that.

We just schooled each other! A great advantage to the collaboration process. Eye-opening! I used to believe I had to spontaneously be inspired to write anything worth reading. Apparently, I just had to set my mind to do it. And it’s huge progress that I pause on a piece and go back to it… Soooooo deceived. When ya buy your own BS, there’s no one there to tell you to leave it at the store! Still weeding out BS! Suspect a lifetime gig.

BS is like a fertile garden. Constant weeding must be done to keep it looking nice. My perfect creative reality involves the perfect balance of free flowing creativity and well thought out concepts and ideas. While I am not foolish enough to believe I will ever find it, at least the conquest will keep me writing.

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A journey can be described as the interim experience between two places. I consider the journey I’ve been on thus far in my life, and I find myself with a surprising level of peace with what has been, and hope for what is yet to be. I’m perplexed to see these words spilling onto this page, and to know they actually come from a place of genuineness inside of me. My journey, as most involved in the human experience, has been riddled with hardships. Unfortunately, those hardships have always upstaged the many simultaneous blessings I’ve known. I was always running so fast that I never really took time to appreciate the good things in my life… I mean, deeply appreciate them. Recognition and passing nods don’t count much for appreciation! As a person in long term recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction I am finding that ceasing my fast pace escape methods and embracing a slower speed is changing everything for the better. That's ALL God if ya know me!
A huge part of my journey includes spiritual growth and discovery. God and I are much more than acquaintances now, and what an amazing difference. I've always tried to do everything on my own (and what a royal mess). I'm listening to counsel now and learning surrender.
I hope people who visit here, by sharing in my experiences, past and present. Part of life is figuring things out as I go. We all have to go through hard times and grow and change accordingly. The fact that we are able to go “through” and reach the other side is a gift. There is much to grasp in this life. The concept of an open forum where people all over the planet can share their thoughts, ideas, and beliefs excites me. The collective-experiences of individuals navigating their own unique quests, combined with the added benefit of finding common threads within- how amazing! Hope you enjoy peeking inside my journey from time to time!
Blessings and Beauty,
Elizabeth